If You're Having This Kind of Sex, You May Be Healthier

Years before Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele were making BDSM relationships mainstream, Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader were starring in this eccentric, critically beloved film about a submissive secretary and her sexually dominant boss.

But maybe it should be! if you're secretly (or not so secretly) into the BDSM lifestyle, here's a reason to celebrate and be proud of your outside-of-the-box sexiness: A new study shows that people who practice BDSM are actually more psychologically healthy than people who are more "vanilla," as they say. Folks with a fetish for the Christian Grey sex practices are more extroverted, more open to new experiences, more conscientious, less neurotic, and less paranoid. If that didn't make you feel like bragging about your inner dominatrix, they also reported higher feelings of well-being and more secure feelings of attachment in their relationships.

Anyone feeling inspired to get a little kinky tonight?

Have you ever experimented with any sex practices outside the vanilla "norm"? Would you agree that people who do are actually mentally healthier?